The expulsion of the Wuppertal Carnival Prince Thomas II after the appearance of nude photos was legal.
The Wuppertal district court decided that and rejected the man's complaint, as a court spokeswoman told SPIEGEL.
The court did not make a reason publicly at first, saying that it should first be served on the parties to the dispute.
The Carnival Prince had been dismissed without notice at the end of the last session: »You are in the prince's regalia in an impossible, shameful, almost pornographic pose and thus depicted as an unworthy prince of the city of Wuppertal. Your term of office ends today, March 8th "Said the letter.
Prince wants to see himself recognized in the carnival books
The prince saw his honor tainted: it was not he who distributed the intimate, compromising photos, but someone else.
He did not want to be expelled and complained.
"My client's concern is to find out that he was wrongly deposed as a prince," his lawyer had said.
The session was long over, but he did not want to go down in the carnival annals as an unworthy, dismissed prince, but rather to be positively appreciated like his predecessors.
The prince did not deny that he took the photos himself and sent them to his ex-boyfriend.
Four photos had been anonymously sent to the President of the Wuppertal Carnival.
The prince can appeal against the decision of the district court.
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